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The Australian Council of Social Service has welcomed the Senate's rejection of radical social security budget measures.
Backpacking alpacas bring big pay packet
The Australian alpaca industry has filled its largest shipment ever.
Local firm faces fight over foreign death
An Australian mining contractor is being sued over the death of a worker in Ghana.
Miners might find little love in tax check
A Senate inquiry into alleged tax-dodging by multinational companies operating in Australia could be awkward for some mining bosses.
Big fund gets $600m cold feet over green power
Global fund managers have responded to the warnings from the renewable energy target review, seeing a write-down of Pacific Hydro for a few hundred million dollars.
Handful of votes could stop strange new world
A storm of internet activism is rising against the Australian Government’s attempt to force the mandatory retention of telecoms data.
Australia sleeping through dawn of digital money
Billions could be lost if the financial world does not embrace new technologies, one peak body has warned.
Australian archive gives some greatest hits
Australia’s massive archive of historic and contemporary recordings is celebrating its birthday, and has posted its greatest hits online to mark the occasion.
Prizes poised for undervalued count
Names have been put forward for an award to honour the top Women in Financial Services.
Study to find how bad apples rise
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” - an old adage reinforced almost daily, but does the tendency for the vile to get ahead really exist?
Billions will swing on voters' whim
Politicians are playing a multi-billion dollar game of chicken in Victoria.
Moves to silence watchdog show it needs a voice
There are claims that the new Tasmanian Government is trying to erode the powers of the state’s corruption watchdog.
Threat looms on free ride for life
Under current entitlements, retired politicians are allowed to indulge their wanderlust and travel for free, but the lifetime gold pass could soon be revoked.
Two states' pokies laws move further apart
The ACT Government is introducing new laws to help reduce the toll pokies machines take on vulnerable gamblers, while Queensland seems to be heading the opposite way.
Baby money takes broad swipe at workforce
The high cost of child care is keeping tens of thousands of Australian parents from working, even though they want to.
New link for new life in synthetic quest
Macquarie University has enlisted some help for its push to create the world’s first totally synthetic life form.
New probe will prod QLD LNP right up to election
An unprecedented probe into the Queensland Government has been launched, and there is very little that it will not investigate about the current LNP regime.
Big businesses pay no mind to minor differences
Reports say safety is about the only reason Australian employers feel the need to ban the burqa.
Port workers see short end of big union payments
Workers at ports in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane could walk off the job this week, at the same time as reports say their union is willing to sell them out.
Possible rights breach in harsh new rules
A parliamentary review overseen by an LNP member has found that a budget measure forcing young jobseekers to wait months for benefits could put them at serious risk.